oldbookillustrations: The old clock on the stairs. William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908. (Source: archive.org)
theparisreview: “Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there’s always some drive in it that is entirely personal—even if you don’t know it while you’re doing it. I realized some years after A Book of Common Prayer was finished that it was about my anticipating Quintana’s growing up. I wrote it around 1975, so she would have been nine, but I was already anticipating separation and actually working through that ahead of time. So novels are also about things you’re afraid you can’t deal with.” Joan Didion in her bedroom, from issue 176, Spring 2006.
xaoss: The Other Shore - manifest 4, by J.D Doria, 2013